At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

In a groundbreaking discovery that expands the known boundaries of life habitats, scientists have uncovered extremophiles ...

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Many creatures make their homes above ocean vents, but life underneath the surface was just discovered. Screengrab from Schmidt Ocean Institute YouTube video Deep under the sea, the molten core of the ...

Light shines through the water of a rocky cave in the deep sea. Ocean explorer Jon Copley has completed dozens of dives to the darkest corners of the deep sea. Yet he is still amazed every time he ...

India recently launched a rocket to the moon. Russia gave it a shot and wished they had not. Exploration rovers have crept across the surface of Mars, and Elon Musk is plotting how to get some of us ...

In 1977 scientists discovered that at the deepest parts of the ocean, which people had long imagined to be dark, cold, and lifeless, was a strange environment teeming with life. Marine geologist ...

Spectacular scenery, from lush rainforests to towering mountain ranges, dots the surface of our planet. But some of Earth’s most iconic landmarks––ones that may harbor clues to the origin of life on ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Aim: Deep-sea hydrothermal vent habitats support a low-diversity fauna in which most species are unique to the ecosystem. To inform ...